One of the most hilarious things to me is Americans whacking other countries for being corrupt. Russia is a favorite target, but the US abuses virtually every non-Western country for “corruption.” I’ve pointed out before that this is absurd. There is no more corrupt country in the world than the US. The bank bailouts were [...]

For those of you unfamiliar with the term “airlock”, it’s corporate lackey speak for what management does to an inconvenient subordinate. They need to make a change and there’s a person they have to get rid of but can’t, or not quite yet. The person is in the way. So, he or she is given a job in a remote office with a special title, like Vice President of the Office of Competitive Research Analysis or something. The office has no power, no budget to speak of and the person in charge rarely gets an invitation to any important meetings. He or she just sits in the office, sharpening pencils, surfing the web and waiting for the airlock to open on the other side.

In Elizabeth Warren’s case, she will be “Assistant to the President & Special Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau”.

President Obama will announce this week that Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor who first proposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will be named to a special position reporting to both him and to the Treasury Department and tasked with heading the effort to get the new federal agency standing, a knowledgeable Democrat told ABC News.

Warren’s title will be Assistant to the President & Special Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Warren currently chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Assets Relief Program and has been seen by many on the Left as a force for greater accountability and transparency, and a check against the forces in the Obama administration more closely allied with the financial sector. Many officials in that sector eye her warily as too anti-business.

Warren: Thank You Mr. President. As I hope I’ve made clear, the middle class has been declining in discretionary income over the past 40 years due to a number of factors including deregulation of the financial industry. If you turn to page 12, you will find a graph…

President Obama: Ha-Ha-Ha! That’s fine, Lizzy. Know what I’m going to do? I’m going to make you my Extra Special Assistant at the agency that you imagined in your essay. How does that sound, Lizzy?

<crickets>

It sounds stupid.

As do the excuses that are made for not appointing her and going through the confirmation process. “Ohhh, woe is me. My nominees are all stuck in committee. Those nasty, wasty Congresspeople are so meeeeeeean.”

Look, here’s the bottom line: If she goes through the confirmation process, that means the office would have power. If she doesn’t, that means it has NO power.

What do you take us for? Utter morons?

So what if the banking industry piles on? The public hates, Hates, HATES the banks. If you do something they don’t like, that makes you golden. So, if you do not choose to take them on, what should we conclude?

That’s right. Democrats are cowardly @#$#$@ of @#$@%@. And when we go to the polls in November, what should we do?

Vote for Greens, socialists, independents. Anyone but right wing nutcases and Democrats.

They told me the radiation treatments would make me tired. They did. On the last day, they said, "It'll get worse before it gets better." They were right, but they didn't tell me how much worse. It's like my entire body is in open rebellion. Also, alien skin. Yikes. I really gotta post these links before it's suddenly September. […]